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welcome to the McDowell Tech Library today we are going to look at how to search for a book weed Again by going to services and going down to library and clicking in the left me and you you will see Search for the book click on that and then click on search are catalog here you can search the McDowell Tech Library or if you click on the menu you can actually search all libraries in their Consortium there are over 50 Community College libraries in the Consortium and if you find a book at another Library we can borrow the book for you you just need to come to the desk and let us know so that we can put a hold on it today I'm going to work with Just Books here at McDowell Tech so I'm going to leave it on McDowell now you can also search by keyword this menu you will see that you can search by author title subject series for periodical title I'm going to leave it on words and phrases do a keyword search I want something on diabetes atop that in and hid in her and I get 21 books that it found in the McDowell Tech Library about diabetes now these may be books that are fiction where the character had deals with diabetes it could be a cookbook for diabetics so you kind of have to look through the list if you're doing research and find something on your toe I'm for example this complete guy diabetes guide for type 2 diabetes if I click on the title it brings up a picture of the book information about the book and one of the very Hornet things you need to write down is the call number of the book that shows us where the book is located in the library if you need more information on the book you can click on a look inside and it will give you a short summary about the book and possibly even information about the author and their qualifications now if you want to do a search that is a little more narrow road you can go to Power search and here you can search different items and kind of narrow down your topic so let's say that I'm interested in nursing so I'm going to type in nursing but more specifically I want nursing about with chill Grand Lake pediatric nursing so I'm going to change this to words or phrases and do Pediatric so now it should only find books on Pediatric nursing once again I can change it to all and it would search all the libraries in the Consortium or I can look and see just what we have here at McDowell Tech Silas start with just McDowell Tech I click search it found 13 titles and as you scroll down you will see pediatric nursing nursing excellence in the care of children so instead of getting just nursing books or searching books on children we combine the two terms to find books about pediatric nursing I hope this has been helpful good luck searching the catalog

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